Howard Robard Hughes Sr.

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Howard Robard Hughes, 1917
Hughes family grave

Howard Robard Hughes Sr. (born  September 9, 1869 in Lancaster , Missouri , †  January 14, 1924 in Houston , Texas ) was an American inventor , entrepreneur and founder of the Hughes Tool Company .

Live and act

Hughes studied at Harvard University and the University of Iowa without a degree. After that he still worked as a lawyer. Soon he became more interested in oil exploration and moved to Texas . Together with a partner, he ran a drilling company. To be able to drill through rock, he developed new drill bits , which he patented. His drill bits proved to be powerful in drilling through rock layers and enabled oil production from previously inaccessible resources. In 1909 he and his partner Walter Sharp founded the Sharp-Hughes Tool Company . After Sharp's death in 1912, he ran the company alone and some time later took over the shares of the Sharp family. In 1915 the company was renamed the Hughes Tool Company. He continuously improved the drilling tools and eventually held over 50 patents.

After Hughes' death in 1924 at the age of 54, his then 18-year-old son Howard Hughes Jr. inherited a fortune in the millions. The family business forms the financial basis for its diverse projects and entrepreneurial activities.

literature

  • John N. Ingham, Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders: Vol. 2, HM , Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group Inc, 1983, Page 635 ISBN 9780313239083
  • MS Vassiliou: Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry. Scarecrow Pr Inc, 2009, page 244, ISBN 9780810859937
  • Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness , Verlag WW Norton & Co, 2004, family history on pages 26 ff. ISBN 9780393326024
  • Ari Ben-Menahem, Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences , Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009, pages 3187, 3188, ISBN 9783540688310
  • Vaclav Smil, Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences v. 2 , Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 163, 164 ISBN 9780195168754

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Howard Robard Hughes Sr. , findagrave.com, accessed June 11, 2012
  2. ↑ Patent overview Howard Hughes R (accessed June 11, 2012)
  3. ↑ Quoted from the website houstonhistory.com

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personal data
SURNAME Hughes, Howard Robard Sr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hughes, Howard Robard Sr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American businessman
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Lancaster , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1924
Place of death Houston , Texas